-> MD> I liked mario because it offered diffirent things to do, besides
-> MD> guy bashing.
->
-> Like what?  I dunno, I playaed Mario 64, from the beggining to the en
-> there's nothing else to do BUT bash the guys!  Just on them, make lon
-> jumps to
-> jump on them. You have like 3 different kinds of way of bashing the
-> bad guys, there's the slide.. Jump on them.. jump then pess the z
-> button, you can punch them... Oh, you are soo right... ..
-> Sorry, but I REALLY don't see what
-> else the game has other then bashing stuff... I mean, that's the
-> only thing you
-> can do if you want to have the stars, and not die.
There was stuff like finding points on maps, finding red coins, plenty
of secrets, helping the snowman find his body, rescuing the little
penguin, the treasure chest puzzles in the underwater world, etc.
Sure, there is plenty of bashing, but there's also much more to do
besides just that.
-> The bosses?  Please, they all used the same type of way of being
-> "killed"...
-> There's the first one, that bomb king, you need to go to his back,
-> pick him up,
-> thrown him, same thing with bowser, you need to get to his back,
-> pick him up, and throw him. Then there's those other bombs where you
-> just need to BASH in order for them to fall in Lava..
Not at all.  The bomb was right, the boil bully you had to push off,
koopa you had to beat twice, bot times the same way of killing him
(Throwing him into the bombs) but both times he had diffirent sets of
attacks.  Then there was the whomp guy, who you had to dodge when he
tried to squish you and stomp on his back.  All bosses the same?  I
don't think so.
-> Oh and don't forget the story, Marios story has been repeated since
-> 1980 or something... well, it's the exact same story all over the
-> place. From mario 1,
-> to 64.  As for Crash, the story is much more different, he needs to
-> save the planet, the story also has a plot twist.. who do I trust?
-> Dr. N brio or that other one... And the Crystals are harder to find
-> (not the purple ones) then any
-> star in Mario 64.
let's face it, story is not a key part of mario 64.  If mario 64 was an
rpg (and it has been done, with a GREAT story, on SNES) it would need a
good story, but plain and simple, it isn't.  Doom and quake had weak
storylines, too, and yet they seem to be highly favored among gamers.
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